Modern Greek Studies Discipline Courses Details
MGS 150 : Modern Greek I
| Prerequisites: | None |
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| Description: | Modern (demotic) Greek for beginners emphasizing oral expression, listening comprehension, reading and writing. Grammar introduced in context of readings. |
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| Units: | 5 |
| Latest Offering: | Fall 2013 |
MGS 151 : Modern Greek II
| Prerequisites: | MGS 150 or equivalent. |
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| Description: | Continuation of first semester Modern Greek. |
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| Units: | 4 |
| Latest Offering: | Spring 2013 |
MGS 151 : Modern Greek II
| Prerequisites: | MGS 150 or equivalent. |
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| Description: | Continuation of first semester Modern Greek. |
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| Units: | 5 |
MGS 152 : Modern Greek Conversation
| Prerequisites: | MGS 150/GRE 150 or consent of instructor. |
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| Description: | Emphasizing aural-oral skills, provides practical contexts for conversational modern Greek derived from instructional videos, DVDs, and on-line tutorials. May be repeated for a maximum of 4 units toward degree credit. |
| Units: | 2 |
MGS 316 : Contemporary Culture of Greece
| Prerequisites: | ENG 214 or equivalent. |
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| Description: | The culture of contemporary Greece within the framework of the social sciences, particularly anthropology and folklore. (Cross listed with ANTH 316. May not be repeated under alternate prefix.) |
| Units: | 3 |
MGS 350 : Greece and the Balkans
| Prerequisites: | ENG 214 or equivalent. |
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| Description: | History of Greece and the Balkans from the Fall of Constantinople to the present. (Cross listed with HIST 350. May not be repeated under alternate prefix.) |
| Units: | 3 |
MGS 351 : Venetians and Ottomans in the Eastern Mediterranean and Greece
| Prerequisites: | ENG 214 or equivalent; upper division standing. |
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| Description: | Cross listed with HIST 351. For course description, see HIST 351. (May not be repeated under alternate prefix.) |
| Units: | 3 |
MGS 352 : From Glory to Debt: Greece from the 19th to the 21st Centuries
| Prerequisites: | ENG 214 or equivalent; upper division standing. |
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| Description: | Cross listed with HIST 352. For course description, see HIST 352. (May not be repeated under alternate prefix.) |
| Units: | 3 |
MGS 365 : Modern Greek III
| Prerequisites: | MGS 151 or equivalent. |
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| Description: | Continuation of second semester Modern Greek. Accelerated emphasis on conversation, grammar and composition. |
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| Units: | 4 |
| Latest Offering: | Fall 2013 |
MGS 380 : British and American Travellers to Greece
| Prerequisites: | ENG 214 or equivalent. |
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| Description: | Survey of the genre of travel writing to Greece in British and American letters from the Romantic to the postmodern periods. Authors include Byron, Wilde, Woolf, and Miller. (Cross listed with ENG 380. May not be repeated under alternate prefix.) |
| Units: | 3 |
| Latest Offering: | Fall 2012 |
MGS 397 : Greek American Literature
| Prerequisites: | ENG 114 or equivalent. |
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| Description: | A survey of the major Greek American authors and poets of the 20th century. (Cross listed with ENG 398. May not be repeated under alternate prefix.) |
| Units: | 3 |
| Latest Offering: | Spring 2013 |
MGS 452 : Forster, Durrell, and Cavafy
| Prerequisites: | ENG 214 or equivalent |
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| Description: | Examination of English novelists and travel writers E. M. Forster and Lawrence Durrell and of their connection to Alexandrian poet C. P. Cavafy. Discussion includes their collective interest in Alexandria as an alternative literary and ideological typos. Cross listed with CWL 452/ENG 452. May not be repeated under alternate prefixes. |
| Units: | 3 |
MGS 465 : Modern Greek Poetry in Comparative Perspective
| Prerequisites: | ENG 214 or equivalent. |
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| Description: | Survey of Greece's prominent modern poets in comparison with major Anglo-American and European poets. Poets to be studied can include Cavafy, Seferis, Elytis, Mastoraki, Yeats, Eliot, Pound, and Rich. (Cross listed with CWL/C W 465. May not be repeated under alternate prefix.) |
| Units: | 3 |
| Latest Offering: | Fall 2013 |
MGS 470 : Modern Greek IV
| Prerequisites: | MGS 365 or equivalent. |
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| Description: | Continuation of third semester Modern Greek. Conversation, grammar and composition writing. Reading and translating of representative literary and other texts. |
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| Units: | 4 |
MGS 497 : Modern Greek Literature
| Prerequisites: | ENG 214 or equivalent. |
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| Description: | Introduction to Greece's major modernist and postmodernist writers. Exploration of experimental writing techniques using 20th Century literature. (Cross listed with CW 497. May not be repeated under alternate prefix.) |
| Units: | 3 |
| Latest Offering: | Spring 2013 |
MGS 510 : The Byzantine Empire
| Prerequisites: | ENG 214 or equivalent. |
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| Description: | Political, social, economic, cultural history of Byzantine empire from 7th to 15th centuries A.D.; relations of Byzantium with Germanic, Slavic, Arabic, and Turkic-speaking neighbors. (Cross listed with CLAS 510/HIST 326. May not be repeated under alternate prefix.) |
| Units: | 3 |
| Latest Offering: | Fall 2013 |
MGS 555 : Introduction to Modern Greek Literary Texts
| Prerequisites: | MGS 470 or equivalent. |
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| Description: | Reading and translation of selected texts in modern Greek literature. Modern Greek grammar for upper division students. |
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| Units: | 3 |
| Latest Offering: | Fall 2012 |
MGS 699 : Independent Study
| Prerequisites: | Upper division standing or consent of instructor. |
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| Description: | Supervised intensive, individual undergraduate work, largely of a research nature, in Modern Greek Studies, e.g., language, literature, folklore and/or culture. Culminates in a paper. |
| Units: | 1-4 |
